Mr. Bill's Family Ties

My Grandparents:
Guy & Sarah (Sadie) (Gray) Newcomer

"To the Lineal Descendants of
Ulrich Newcomer (Neukommet) through his son, Jacob
Newcomer, who was born March 29, 1765, this Record is dedicated. To those
through whose veins the same blood courses that courses through my own veins,
is extended greetings of kindred Love, Charity and Respect."

The Newcomer's in this database descend primarily from the Ulrich Newcomer
who came to Pennsylvania in 1754 on the ship Phoenix. Our particular
line from Ulrich also has a connection to the Christian Newcomer who came to
Pennsylvania in 1750 on the ship Brotherhood. There are over 1,500
descendants of Ulrich Newcomer in this database.

Joan
(Riehle) Ruse has done extensive research on the
descendants of the above Christian and Ulrich Newcomer. Her primary interest
and work has focused on the descendants of the 1750 Brotherhood Christian
Newcomer from which her husband has descent. Out of respect for her labor and
research, I've only included those descendants of Christian Newcomer that are
of our direct line from him.

Owen
Newcomer is a descendant of the Peter Newcomer who came to Pennsylvania about
1719. This Peter was the father of Wolfgang Newcomer and grandfather of
Christian Newcomer, the Moravian missionary who was prominent in the
beginnings of the United Brethren Church movement. At this time we are not
aware of any connections between the family of this Peter Newcomer and the 1750
Christian or 1754 Ulrich. At one time Owen had his research
available at the “Newcomer Family Home Page: Descendants of Peter
NEWCOMER/NEUKOMMET Senior.”

Variants
of the Britton name include BRITTON, BREADEN, BRETTUN, and BRITAIN.
Our Britton line originates in New England, and is best identified as
the New England, Westmoreland, New Hampshire, Britton
family.

My sister Carol was the first real genealogist of the family. Most of the
data on the Bavin - Britton lines has come from her
research. She has done most of the hard digging.

My brother, John has contributed by researching some the National Archive
records relating to our family.

Our sister, Joy, now deceased, gave us moral support along with some
collaborating historical contributions.

I, Bill, get the fun of putting this all together on the computer and making
it available here. I do what verification and cross checking I can, as well as
WWW research.

Though the lines that flow to our immediate family are given priority, I'm
also entering the data we have on the Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins from past
generations so those who, though not of our direct lines, share in our
genealogical heritage, may also find their roots.

The
genealogical data I originally published on this site at Rootsweb, has been moved
at Ancestory.com as the Newcomer Tree.

My GEDCOM

I do not feel comfortable making my GEDCOM
file available on the WWW. To many things change as
more information becomes available. If after browsing the information on these
pages, you have good reason to believe you have some connection to a
part of our family tree, and would like a GEDCOM file of a particular branch of
the family, feel free to send me a note. .